Tanvi Misra
@tanvi.bsky.social
writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
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Tanvi Misra
@tanvi.bsky.social
· Nov 26
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
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How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
Type Investigations fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
Type Investigations fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
jewishcurrents.org
June 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
Type Investigations fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
Type Investigations fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
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Afghan asylum seekers fled a crisis the US had a direct role in fomenting—only to become targets in Trump’s immigration crackdown.
@typeinvestigations.org fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
@typeinvestigations.org fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra
Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
www.nybooks.com
June 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Afghan asylum seekers fled a crisis the US had a direct role in fomenting—only to become targets in Trump’s immigration crackdown.
@typeinvestigations.org fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
@typeinvestigations.org fellow @tanvi.bsky.social for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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Tanvi Misra (@tanvi.bsky.social) on America’s betrayal of Afghan asylum seekers
The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra
Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
www.nybooks.com
June 29, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Tanvi Misra (@tanvi.bsky.social) on America’s betrayal of Afghan asylum seekers
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The Biden administration’s policies “were already hurting asylum seekers…and a second Trump administration [spelled] disaster for Afghans,” @tanvi.bsky.social writes. “Two years later, the disaster is unfolding as a slow burn.”
The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra
Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
www.nybooks.com
July 1, 2026 at 9:06 AM
The Biden administration’s policies “were already hurting asylum seekers…and a second Trump administration [spelled] disaster for Afghans,” @tanvi.bsky.social writes. “Two years later, the disaster is unfolding as a slow burn.”
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On this episode of On the Nose, @tanvi.bsky.social and John Washington discuss the slow death of asylum—and whether it was ever really "alive and well." An important listen in light of the Supreme Court's devastating rulings on TPS and asylum policy.
jewishcurrents.org/democracy-an...
jewishcurrents.org/democracy-an...
July 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
On this episode of On the Nose, @tanvi.bsky.social and John Washington discuss the slow death of asylum—and whether it was ever really "alive and well." An important listen in light of the Supreme Court's devastating rulings on TPS and asylum policy.
jewishcurrents.org/democracy-an...
jewishcurrents.org/democracy-an...
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“The Trump administration has developed a range of methods to weaponize a system already stacked against asylum seekers…. To an unprecedented degree, many have been sent to third countries with which they had no ties, from Panama to Ghana.” —@tanvi.bsky.social
The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra
Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
www.nybooks.com
July 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
“The Trump administration has developed a range of methods to weaponize a system already stacked against asylum seekers…. To an unprecedented degree, many have been sent to third countries with which they had no ties, from Panama to Ghana.” —@tanvi.bsky.social
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The Biden administration’s policies “were already hurting asylum seekers…and a second Trump administration [spelled] disaster for Afghans,” @tanvi.bsky.social writes. “Two years later, the disaster is unfolding as a slow burn.”
The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra
Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
www.nybooks.com
July 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The Biden administration’s policies “were already hurting asylum seekers…and a second Trump administration [spelled] disaster for Afghans,” @tanvi.bsky.social writes. “Two years later, the disaster is unfolding as a slow burn.”
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“The Trump administration has developed a range of methods to weaponize a system already stacked against asylum seekers…. To an unprecedented degree, many have been sent to third countries with which they had no ties, from Panama to Ghana.” —@tanvi.bsky.social
The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum | Tanvi Misra
Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd.1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
www.nybooks.com
July 11, 2026 at 3:27 AM
“The Trump administration has developed a range of methods to weaponize a system already stacked against asylum seekers…. To an unprecedented degree, many have been sent to third countries with which they had no ties, from Panama to Ghana.” —@tanvi.bsky.social
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NEW FREE HELL!
@typemediacenter.org fellow and @fspnwu.bsky.social 's @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum: How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved the way for authoritarianism.”
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@typemediacenter.org fellow and @fspnwu.bsky.social 's @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum: How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved the way for authoritarianism.”
Keep us free!
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New Hell! Tanvi Misra on the End of Asylum | This Is Hell!
New Hell! Tanvi Misra on the End of Asylum by This Is Hell! on Patreon. Join This Is Hell!'s community for exclusive content and updates.
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May 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
NEW FREE HELL!
@typemediacenter.org fellow and @fspnwu.bsky.social 's @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum: How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved the way for authoritarianism.”
Keep us free!
www.patreon.com/posts/new-he...
@typemediacenter.org fellow and @fspnwu.bsky.social 's @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum: How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved the way for authoritarianism.”
Keep us free!
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May 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
For the latest issue for @readlux.bsky.social , I followed a couple of different groups of court watchers earlier this year. The piece (if you don’t have your copy in hand yet) is also online now! lux-magazine.com/articlea/ice...
All Eyes on ICE
Court watchers get inside the deportation machine.
lux-magazine.com
May 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
For the latest issue for @readlux.bsky.social , I followed a couple of different groups of court watchers earlier this year. The piece (if you don’t have your copy in hand yet) is also online now! lux-magazine.com/articlea/ice...
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The walls that keep *them* out inevitably wind up keeping *you* in.
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism.
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
jewishcurrents.org
April 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The walls that keep *them* out inevitably wind up keeping *you* in.
Reposted by Tanvi Misra
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism.
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
jewishcurrents.org
April 20, 2026 at 9:10 PM
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism.
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
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NEW LIVE FREE HELL! at 10AM CDT and poodcast shortly after
Tues., Shana Marshall discusses the @securityincontext.bsky.social piece, "A Violent Convergence" on militarization.
Weds., @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum"
www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...
Tues., Shana Marshall discusses the @securityincontext.bsky.social piece, "A Violent Convergence" on militarization.
Weds., @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum"
www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...
This week in Hell! "A Violent Convergence" and "The Death of Asylum" | This Is Hell!
This week in Hell! "A Violent Convergence" and "The Death of Asylum" by This Is Hell! on Patreon. Join This Is Hell!'s community for exclusive content and updates.
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May 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
NEW LIVE FREE HELL! at 10AM CDT and poodcast shortly after
Tues., Shana Marshall discusses the @securityincontext.bsky.social piece, "A Violent Convergence" on militarization.
Weds., @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum"
www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...
Tues., Shana Marshall discusses the @securityincontext.bsky.social piece, "A Violent Convergence" on militarization.
Weds., @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum"
www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...
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"By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else" - @tanvi.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
jewishcurrents.org
April 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM
"By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else" - @tanvi.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism.
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
jewishcurrents.org
April 20, 2026 at 9:10 PM
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism.
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...
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Hi, I'm looking to speak with resettled refugee Afghan families or those in the asylum process affected by recent Trump policies for a story. Can protect ID! Please reach out at tanvim.05 on signal.
March 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Hi, I'm looking to speak with resettled refugee Afghan families or those in the asylum process affected by recent Trump policies for a story. Can protect ID! Please reach out at tanvim.05 on signal.
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We are excited to announce that Rachael Bedard, Jasper Craven, Jasmine Garsd @jasgarsd.bsky.social, Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social, Ryan “R.L.” Nave @rlnave.bsky.social, and Katie Rose Quandt will be joining the Type Media Center fellowship program: typemediacenter.org/2026/02/24/t...
Type Media Center Welcomes Six Journalists As Fellows - Type Media Center
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February 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
We are excited to announce that Rachael Bedard, Jasper Craven, Jasmine Garsd @jasgarsd.bsky.social, Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social, Ryan “R.L.” Nave @rlnave.bsky.social, and Katie Rose Quandt will be joining the Type Media Center fellowship program: typemediacenter.org/2026/02/24/t...
woohoo!
We are excited to announce that Rachael Bedard, Jasper Craven, Jasmine Garsd @jasgarsd.bsky.social, Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social, Ryan “R.L.” Nave @rlnave.bsky.social, and Katie Rose Quandt will be joining the Type Media Center fellowship program: typemediacenter.org/2026/02/24/t...
Type Media Center Welcomes Six Journalists As Fellows - Type Media Center
typemediacenter.org
March 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
woohoo!
Doing investigative fellowship with the good folks at Type Media, covering-- no surprise--immigration. Pls reach out if you have investigative tips (real tips! pls don't give me story ideas, i've been on this beat for a decade!)
I'm at tanvim.05 on signal.
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I'm at tanvim.05 on signal.
typemediacenter.org/fellows/tanv...
Tanvi Misra - Type Media Center
The Fellowship Program provides emerging and established journalists the support needed to write on complex social and political issues. Our fellows form a unique community of thinkers and writers and...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Doing investigative fellowship with the good folks at Type Media, covering-- no surprise--immigration. Pls reach out if you have investigative tips (real tips! pls don't give me story ideas, i've been on this beat for a decade!)
I'm at tanvim.05 on signal.
typemediacenter.org/fellows/tanv...
I'm at tanvim.05 on signal.
typemediacenter.org/fellows/tanv...
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ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
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reading this by @tanvi.bsky.social 'as the new mayor takes office, the bigger question is not what he symbolizes for immigrant communities but what benefits he might deliver for them if he can realize his vision of an affordable city.'
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
reading this by @tanvi.bsky.social 'as the new mayor takes office, the bigger question is not what he symbolizes for immigrant communities but what benefits he might deliver for them if he can realize his vision of an affordable city.'
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Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...